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Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Has Cameras and a Huge Display (engadget.com)
anderzole writes with news about Samsung's latest and greatest refrigerator unveiled at CES. Engadget reports: "One of the highlights of CES is always the wacky new appliance tech (and associated bickering) from Samsung and LG. This year looks to be no exception thanks to a new 'Family Hub' refrigerator from Samsung. The imposing-looking model is equipped with a 21.5-inch, 1080p monitor and cameras inside so that you can watch your mayonnaise go bad in real time. You can even check the contents remotely via a smartphone app to see what's in there while you're shopping, in case you forgot whether you need that jar of sweet pickles or not."
who are not consistently appropriate with kitchen duties. a remotely monitored oven/stove would be wonderful.
Nobody reads the articles so this story doesn't even provide a link.
I don't trust Samsung to support the smartphone app for too much longer. They don't have a good track record.
To be replaced by "Does the light go out when you turn off the camera?"
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
As one of the previous commenters mentioned, it is good for keeping tabs on the contents of the elderlies' refrigerators. If you have ever had to care for aged parents or aunts or uncles or grandparents, you quickly realize many can get along just fine as long as the little details of life can be managed for them. You have a choice, you can buy in-home care to do this for you. However, if you don't have that sort of cash to throw around (and it ain't cheap), then little baubles like this are god-send. You won't be there enough time and it would exhaust you to do it.
And when you reach your dotage, you will want to (1) be independent, (2) thankful for little eyes to watch things for you just as long as they aren't attached to someone strange (or weird, or larcenous) in your house.
Completely fed up with this BS. I don't need a fridge that can slice dice and wash my laundry. I want it to keep my food cold and ice frozen and be dependable doing so.
For years I've been wanting something that would enable me to see inside my refrigerator without opening the door and wasting electricity. I always kinda figured the solution would involve a thick glass door and a light switch though. This is cool and all, I guess, but I'd rather have something simpler, with less things to go wrong and break down, and if my last fridge is any indication, that's kinda an issue.
Also, here's the link that was omitted.
I have to ask, though...what are her parents doing hiding in the fridge? That much cold and lack of movement can't possibly be good for their joints.
So, when does adding all these camera features cost more electricity than simply holding the door open while you look for what you want?
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
I don't waste any energy by opening the door - I treat it as an opportunity to take a beer out.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
So what does an obese person have in their refrigerator after all?
Oreos, Moon Pies, Twinkies, etc, do not need refridgeration. The fat people I know have nearly empty refridgerators but cabinets stuffed with packaged food.
Re-chilling the air is trivial, it's re-chilling the mass of objects inside the fridge that's energy intensive, or at least that's how it seems to me.
It'd be interesting to take two identical fridges with identical items inside and keep one completely closed and open the door for 30 seconds on the other once every half hour and see how much extra energy (minus the lightbulb, maybe) is consumed by the fridge with the door opened.
The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
A common misconception. Turns out the Infernal Municipal Council (Public Works Division) regularly resurfaces the Road to Hell with a mixture of sulfurous pitch, crystallized despair, orphan tears, wallpaper glue, tree pollen, crushed up AOL Free Trial CDs, undying snakes, microbeads, fell runestones graven with the demonic localization of the systemd man page, and the mortal souls of chronic masturbaters and people with window decals of Calvin pissing on things.
Good intentions are often a large volume fraction of the cement on the Sidewalk to Poor User Interface Design, which is so similar to Hell that people often get them mixed up.
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